New Number Coding Scheme in the Philippines
New Number Coding Scheme: Is It a Good Idea?
What is the Number Coding Scheme? Well, the Number Coding Scheme or officially called Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP), is the traffic program that reduce the amount of vehicles in the particular areas of the Philippines’ capital. The function or idea of this program is that that vehicle whose plate number ends in a particular number is banned on the main streets of an area on particular days. For example, those vehicles that plate numbers are ending in 1 and 2 are ban on main streets every Monday. Ambulances, diplomatic vehicles, school busses are exempted to this program. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is an agency that handles this program.
The MMDA is studying with the idea of modifying the present UVVRP to cover four license plate endings per day. Saying it could cut the number of vehicles on the road by 40 percent on any given day. MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino cited data to justify the tougher scheme they are contemplating: “In 2010 we only had around 1.9 million of registered vehicles in Metro Manila, but now it will reach 2.3 million so maybe we can adopt what is being implemented in Rio de Janeiro sa Brazil” which are implementing the four-digit number coding.” The planned shift from the current two-digit Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) or the “number-coding” scheme into a four-digit system is just one of the solutions the agency is looking at to resolve traffic woes in the metropolis. But there is disadvantage of this new protocol. That is those motorists having only one vehicle will be having hard time to go to their personal business, it is also disadvantage for jeepney drivers because of high price in fuel and they will have less income because of this new program.
I am not favor for this one, because I think the real reasons for having a bad traffic on main roads of Manila are lack of wide roads, alternative routes, and safety public
What is the Number Coding Scheme? Well, the Number Coding Scheme or officially called Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP), is the traffic program that reduce the amount of vehicles in the particular areas of the Philippines’ capital. The function or idea of this program is that that vehicle whose plate number ends in a particular number is banned on the main streets of an area on particular days. For example, those vehicles that plate numbers are ending in 1 and 2 are ban on main streets every Monday. Ambulances, diplomatic vehicles, school busses are exempted to this program. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is an agency that handles this program.
The MMDA is studying with the idea of modifying the present UVVRP to cover four license plate endings per day. Saying it could cut the number of vehicles on the road by 40 percent on any given day. MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino cited data to justify the tougher scheme they are contemplating: “In 2010 we only had around 1.9 million of registered vehicles in Metro Manila, but now it will reach 2.3 million so maybe we can adopt what is being implemented in Rio de Janeiro sa Brazil” which are implementing the four-digit number coding.” The planned shift from the current two-digit Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) or the “number-coding” scheme into a four-digit system is just one of the solutions the agency is looking at to resolve traffic woes in the metropolis. But there is disadvantage of this new protocol. That is those motorists having only one vehicle will be having hard time to go to their personal business, it is also disadvantage for jeepney drivers because of high price in fuel and they will have less income because of this new program.
I am not favor for this one, because I think the real reasons for having a bad traffic on main roads of Manila are lack of wide roads, alternative routes, and safety public
References: Masinag, C. (July 10, 2013) MMDA mulls new number-coding scheme to keep your car off streets not once, but twice. Interaksyon. Retrieved from http://www.interaksyon.com/article/66032/mmda-mulls-new-number-coding-scheme-to-keep-your-car-off-streets-not-once-but-twice Frialde, J. (July 11, 2013) Expanded number coding eyed on EDSA. Headlines. Retrieved from http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/07/11/964088/expanded-number-coding-eyed-edsa Uniform Vehicular Volume Reduction Program. Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Vehicular_Volume_Reduction_Program